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What's with the confusion over masks?

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By ANDREW SELSKY

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Either that or they do believe them, and feel a sense of entitlement whereby they don't need to obey them.

Those rules are just for controlling the people, rather than health, and it id all part of the coming great reset.

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it shows they don't believe in their own orders.

Either that or they do believe them, and feel a sense of entitlement whereby they don't need to obey them. I'm curious how you determined it's definitely what you stated, and definitely not what I just put forward. Or did you only come up with one possibility, and find you were creative enough to think of other possibilities, therefore deciding yours must be the only possibility?

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But nobody has a problem with the experts and leaders not following their own recommendations or orders?

@Raw Beer, Exactly, it shows they don't believe in their own orders. Makes you really wonder what is going on behind the curtain.

What do you think is going on behind the curtain?

How exciting!

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But nobody has a problem with the experts and leaders not following their own recommendations or orders?

@Raw Beer, Exactly, it shows they don't believe in their own orders. Makes you really wonder what is going on behind the curtain.

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But nobody has a problem with the experts and leaders not following their own recommendations or orders?

They entirely should follow their own recommendations.

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Yeah, some places that did not have many deaths in the spring are getting them now. Places that had a large wave in the spring generally do not have many deaths now

What’a going on on the UK, France, Spain and Italy? They had big waves of deaths in spring and are going through another big wave.

Which countries are you talking about?

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Yeah, some places that did not have many deaths in the spring are getting them now. Places that had a large wave in the spring generally do not have many deaths now. So it does appear like this "pandemic" is approaching the end.

The opposite, according to the health experts and their data. It is understandable that only people that have other interests in mind different to public health cannot grasp the situation and end up being wrong. For them the pandemic has been "approaching the end" since 6 months ago.

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Yeah, CASES are going up.

Deaths are going up too.

Yeah, some places that did not have many deaths in the spring are getting them now. Places that had a large wave in the spring generally do not have many deaths now. So it does appear like this "pandemic" is approaching the end.

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But nobody has a problem with the experts and leaders not following their own recommendations or orders?

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Yeah, CASES are going up.

Deaths are going up too.

You seem to avoid including this extremely important detail. Are the death figures false and is there a conspiracy theory behind it?

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Masks might provide some benefit, but not as much as vitamin D. But nobody is talking about that.

Which studies are you basing this conclusion upon? Which data?

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Yeah, CASES are going up.

Masks might provide some benefit, but not as much as vitamin D. But nobody is talking about that.

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@Raw Beer

Seeing as you told us this pandemic is over just before record numbers of cases and deaths were recorded worldwide, do you think masks are useful?

I’m guessing you don’t.

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In California, a more stringent mask mandate took effect on Tuesday. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said residents will be required to cover up outdoors, with limited exceptions.

Yeah, and he was caught having an indoor dinner party, with 12 people sitting close together indoors without masks. The guests included 2 medical experts.

And lets not forget when Faucci was not wearing his mask and not social distancing at the baseball stadium.

Such hypocrites!

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It is difficult to respect the medical experts and agencies (CDC, WHO), when they changed their guidance on whether to wear a mask or not so many times. Literally around 3-4 times or more. It is good that Japan Today listed some of the medical experts changing their narratives, but I assure you there are several more examples of this.

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The reason is simple, in today's society there are no norms, we do what we want.

Any change is slow and only after research and 10 essays and 10 experiment proving why with rock solid proof and iron clad data. Must be spoon fed to us, without any individual responsibility.

We think we know more from the internet but in reality we only interact with like-minded individuals and this in essence tunnel visions us.

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But......if these masks are ‘supposed to’ prevent the spread of the virus and all people in the US are being made to wear them, why were there 130,000 new cases in the US yesterday? Furthermore, of the 130,000 new cases how many of them are regular mask wearers? It would seem that masks do little more than line the pockets of the manufacturers.

If you don't know how many are mask wearers why do you assume that masks are not useful? How do you know that without masks there would be 300K cases? to what are you comparing this number to conclude lack of efficacy? Every measure has value, and no single measure is ever 100% effective by itself, if you want to say that something is useless you need much more than proving it is not perfect, you need evidence that say that no reduction at all was observed.

A little over a decade ago during the SARS outbreak the WHO released an article about masks. It stated that, for a face mask to be effective against a virus it must be a 12x surgical mask and changed every 20 minutes.

A reference is necessary for this, it would not be the first time something is grossly misrepresented, sometimes is another organization or person who said that, other times what is being said is completely different (and it was a recommendation for the best option in the hospital environment) sometimes is not even something anybody ever said.

Even so, the best available evidence right now, about a different virus that behaves in a very different way indicates very strongly that masks are an important part of the measures that can reduce transmission. To say this is not true you need more than something more than 10 years old about a different pathogen.

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Weird how 'science' shows lockdowns don't help reduce mortality rates so what are masks going to do:

What is the point in linking to a study where the conclusions are very different from what you write?

full lockdowns (RR=2.47: 95%CI: 1.08–5.64) and reduced country vulnerability to biological threats (i.e. high scores on the global health security scale for risk environment) (RR=1.55; 95%CI: 1.13–2.12) were significantly associated with increased patient recovery rates.

What you need to understand is that this study only looks for associations, its methodology do not allow for conclusions about what measures are effective or not because it does not weight every variable independently and analyze the weight of each measure by itself, that is a huge amount of work that requires validating the methodology first before applying it to this data, understandably this was not done.

More simply, this study do not even pretend to compare the value of the use of masks in a country with very high adherence and airtight borders and another with continuos population movement and insufficient hospital beds, it just counts list the factors on each country and see if there is a difference in how the disease progressed when separating the countries between those that did or not have that factor.

Science is not decided by single reports, specially not by exploratory ones, they just become a part of the evidence.

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WHAT DO THE EXPERTS SAY?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long advised people to wear masks because they help prevent people who are infected — whether they know it or not — from spreading the coronavirus.

But......if these masks are ‘supposed to’ prevent the spread of the virus and all people in the US are being made to wear them, why were there 130,000 new cases in the US yesterday? Furthermore, of the 130,000 new cases how many of them are regular mask wearers? It would seem that masks do little more than line the pockets of the manufacturers.

A little over a decade ago during the SARS outbreak the WHO released an article about masks. It stated that, for a face mask to be effective against a virus it must be a 12x surgical mask and changed every 20 minutes. Now, wearing a mask is ‘supposed to be’ the be all and end all of stopping the spread of this virus. It all seems like BS to me.

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Well, this is how science works, authorities should recommend things according to the best available science, and if new evidence contradicts what was thought before then the recommendations should also change.

At the beginning of the pandemic the situation was not the same as now, and the knowledge was very incomplete. Asymptomatic carriers were not considered especially dangerous, other respiratory diseases were not stopped importantly by using masks and spreading was not rampant in the general population. Now we know better and there are no longer shortage of masks to be used.

Still there will always be people that cannot accept change, they will endlessly go about how "there is no experimental evidence" or how mask are not effective according to someone's opinion (not data). At this point it is no longer acceptable to have this position. Masks help, so is keeping your distance as much as possible and washing your hands and face.

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds cast some doubt Tuesday on the science behind masks

Another victory for freedumb.

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